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cap slides upon the link, keeps the short 

 pieces of gut close, and falls upon the head 

 of the minnow ; no other weight is necefsary. 

 The advocates for this plan , boast of the cer- 

 tainty of hooking the trout with the two 

 small hooks ; this may be true, but I would 

 ask if these small hooks are sufficient to kill 

 a trout of any size, as they seldom exceed 

 No. 12, and when a fish is hooked by these,, 

 the other hooks are entirely uselefs, from 

 the situation in which they are placed; 

 another objection is, that when the gut to 

 which they are tied has been in the water a 

 short time, it will not sustain the weight of 

 the hooks, but they will sink below the min- 

 now, and are continually catching against 

 weeds and pieces of rubbish lodged at the 

 bottom of the river ; besides the lead cap 

 falling on the head of the minnow, totally 

 conceals the eyes, parts of the bait adding 

 life and attraction to it, and on that account 

 $o efsential to be seen. 



Worms are good baits throughout the 



